The Egypt Experience

By Deborah P. Cannon

The Egypt Experience is an uplifting, inspirational book. A book that will inspire the reader to forge ahead and never to give up when faced with difficult or adverse situations. The Egypt Experience gives us to know that somewhere in our lives we will face some rough times but that God will always be there to see us through until the end and that we are never alone. The Egypt Experience gives the readers the blessed assurance that God is still in control of our lives and He will always protect and provide for His children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491811986

Deborah P. Cannon

Deborah P.Cannon was born in Greenville, North Carolina. She has a great love for writing. She is also an Early Childhood major. She is also a writer of children’s stories. Deborah has written and published one book “When the Bull Saw Red”. Deborah has been employed with Pitt Community College for the past 23 years as a preschool teacher. Deborah is married to Johnnie and they have 5 children and 8 grandchildren.

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Contents

Dedication

PART 1 A Place of Suffering

Chapter 1

Egypt: A Place of Suffering, A Place of Prayer

Chapter 2

The Exodus: The Departure of Bondage/Suffering

Chapter 3

Crossing the Red Sea

Chapter 4

A Victorious Crossing

Chapter 5

The Promised Land

PART 2 Inspirational Sermons

Dedication

This Book is dedicated to my mother Naomi B. Parker, for without a doubt encouraged me to pray always especially while journeying through Egypt.

I would like to thank Susanne, Sarah, and David Cloughley for your encouragement and support. A special thanks to my husband, Johnnie, for keeping me focused.

PART 1

A Place of Suffering

Chapter 1

Egypt: A Place of Suffering, A Place of Prayer

Thou carest for me Lord,

Thou carest for me Lord,

Why should I have fear?

My Lord is always near,

Thou carest Lord for me.

Every saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost-filled believer at various times in his or her spiritual life will have an Egypt Experience. Geographically, we may never visit or journey to Egypt, but rest assured that the experience of Egypt will certainly come to all.

The Egypt Experience is a period of immense suffering and unceasing prayer and a period of waiting on God to answer with a mighty deliverance.

It is a time in one’s life wherein it seems that the more one prays the harder his or her tribulations is. There is a time that one will ask the question Is my praying in vain? One’s faith will be tested time and time again. One will feel that waking up every morning means to endure more pain and suffering. One must not stop crying out to God for he will deliver on time. It is better to keep praying than to faint by the wayside, Luke 18-1 declares, Men ought always to pray and not to faint. Just as he did with the Israelites, He will answer by and by.

The Israelites were oppressed down in Egypt’s land enslaved by their captors, held hostage by a cruel and arrogant Pharaoh, and ill treated by a very wrathful taskmaster: then God showed up one day He showed himself to be the mighty God that he is, and He delivered the Israelites from their captors. Many places like the workplace, home and church (yes, even the church) may be places of suffering at times. One may feel like a sheep entering wolf country. One has to be prayed up just to get up to go to work because one deals with the forces of the enemy at your work place and home or church. Remember David had to face Goliath and he did it with God on his side. Giants can be brought down by our God, the God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—just remember that if God is for you He is more than all the world that can be against you (Romans 8:31). Someone is waiting for God to remove his or her supervisor or to fix things at home with that difficult spouse, or to bring peace to the church, and this person is wondering why his or her deliverance has been denied. Remember, my friend, an answer delayed is not a prayer denied. The Bible says that "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life" (Proverbs 13:12). God knows when and how to deliver us. God has a day marked on His calendar as our appointed coming out time. God deals with times and seasons, and, according to Daniel 2:21, He changes times and seasons. When God decides to deliver someone who then can prevent Him from doing so? No one. We do not have to be afraid while we are passing through Egypt because no harm will come to us there, and no weapon that is formed against us will prosper (Isaiah 54:17).

Sometimes we get upset and thrown out of kilter because we see weapons being formed, but the word of God did not promise us that weapons would not form. We stand on the promise that the formed weapons would not prosper against us, meaning the assignment that the adversary has plotted against us will come to no avail. The Good Shepherd will protect his sheep throughout all of life’s afflictions. God is concerned about every aspect of our lives. If we trust Him and never doubt, He will surely bring us out unscathed, so take every burden to the lord and leave them at the feet of Jesus. As an earthly father cares and protects his children, so God cares about us and wants only the best for us.

There are times when it seems that we are so far from God when we are going through the Egypt Experience, but that is when we are nearest to God. Whatever we are going through, and it may seem God is far away, but remember He has never left our side. God is right there at our side supplying us with strength daily to go on. God knows just the type of suffering we need to make us more like Him. In our prayers we ask God to make us more like Him, to cleanse and purge us from everything that is not like him. Like it or not, suffering is a means of cleansing because it does purge and it brings us to a point